River of Music: 12 hrs Non-stop Music: Sunday 30 October

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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    #91
    How do you know they won't judge the experiment a success and use it as a pretext to cut announcers as "surplus to requirements"?
    Well, we were told by a breathless couple at the start that they would be there in person all day responding to our tweets and twitters (not mine, you understand!). I'm loving the River so far and would welcome more days like this...or maybe days with minimal 'TTN-style' continuity announcements.

    OK the web-page might be c**p, but who cares?

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      #92
      Oh no! A second dose of Tavener.

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #93
        I switched off after the third item.
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12971

          #94
          &*%&*($"-ing Wallpaper!

          Is this how the BBC intends to cut costs?

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          • DaisyDog
            Full Member
            • Jun 2016
            • 54

            #95
            River of Music? More of a musical stew, a mess of indigestible lumps and glutinous gravy, a potpourri of unrelated music, segueing from one to another without breathing space to digest. A bit like Classic FM without the commercials. 'Rivers of Muzak' more like.

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            • oddoneout
              Full Member
              • Nov 2015
              • 9192

              #96
              Originally posted by DracoM View Post
              &*%&*($"-ing Wallpaper!
              That implies some sort of uniformity of design.... Perhaps pages from a sample book randomly applied to the wall?

              On a more general note - is any of it related to the title 'River of Music'? My musical knowledge is limited in such matters but I can't see how one piece relates to another, let alone to ROM. Is it in fact just a musical stream of consciousness?

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              • ardcarp
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 11102

                #97
                a potpourri of unrelated music, segueing from one to another without breathing space to digest
                Yes, but some thought has obviously gone into key relationships. No sudden jerks...except when one orchestra was playing at a slightly different pitch (i.e. not A440 or A442) It is 'wallpaper' to some extent, but I'm quite happy to have this background to my pottering-around-the-house-doing-odd-jobs.

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                • Stanley Stewart
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1071

                  #98
                  A reminder of Music While You Work, yonks ago; relentless and mind-numbing!

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                  • Frances_iom
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 2413

                    #99
                    Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View Post
                    A reminder of Music While You Work, yonks ago; relentless and mind-numbing!
                    R3 descended into nursery land under Wright, however the audience for pleasant wall paper is considerably larger than those who appreciate some sensible programming - thus today will be deemed a great success as many of the journalist reviewers who seldom if ever listen to R3 will blog this 'great innovation' by R3 - my own opinion is that at three score + ten R3 has demonstrated that it too is near the end of its life - a pity as in past it was great but its old age has been a continual slide downwards towards nothing better than the old Light program.

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                    • doversoul1
                      Ex Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 7132

                      Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
                      - my own opinion is that at three score + ten R3 has demonstrated that it too is near the end of its life - a pity as in past it was great but its old age has been a continual slide downwards towards nothing better than the old Light program.
                      That may well have been this 70th anniversary was all about. Done with the Old. It’s time for Born Again Radio 3. Good luck to it.

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                      • Pianorak
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3127

                        Background music of ANY kind - my absolute pet hate. No playlist, or have I been looking in the wrong place?
                        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30286

                          There are some good arguments here. A pity (?) many of them are nullified by the sort of hyperbolic language which is deprecated when used by Radio 3 presenters.

                          You've tried it? You think it's a bad idea/done badly? Go for a long walk, put on your own records, tidy the attic. Just make up your minds you became scarily addicted to something that doesn't exist any more.
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30286

                            Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                            Background music of ANY kind - my absolute pet hate. No playlist, or have I been looking in the wrong place?
                            Playlist, and what's currently playing (top right), sometimes a bit out of synch http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080xq5d
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                              Background music of ANY kind - my absolute pet hate. No playlist, or have I been looking in the wrong place?
                              A listing is being updated as the sequence progresses. It's usually an item or two behind the relevant transmission.

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                              • Beef Oven!
                                Ex-member
                                • Sep 2013
                                • 18147

                                Been tuned in since about ten. Thoroughly enjoyable way of listening to broadcasted music. I think that R3 should do this on a regular basis (once a week?). Definitely gets my vote, in fact I’d say it’s excellent.

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